The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-08
NILE. HELEN RSIHSCHILD
A SELF WILLED HEIRESS WHO
HAS A WAY OF HER OWN,
And Is Determined to Marry the
Manoi Ber Choice Despite
the Rabbis.

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bis, the great banking family to
which she belongs, or Mrs. Grundy
may say, is the town talk of the hour
and the sensation of the Jewish
world in these parts. The young
lady is the only DAUGHTER of the late
Baron Solomon RothschiId by a
Rothschild, whose mother was a
Rothschild, and of the lineage OF
Meyer Amschel Rothschild, the
founder of the great five headed
bank. Mile. Helen is not at all
pretty, and has a coarse figure an | a
plain, lat and common looking Judeo-
German face. One of her passions
is horses, another dogs, another
and who can blame her for it?-fne
looking men, A fine man never
existed in the banking dynasty
to which she belongs, although it has
been long mania Of Baron Alphonse
Rothschild to disguise himself in the,
morning and at nightfall as blouse
wearing artisan and pay court to
work girls going or returning from
their work, in the hope of
finding among them some pearl
of rare price whom he could
induce before raining down gold on
her to love him for himself. Mile.
Helen Rothschild has been greatly
attacked by Slanderous tongues. In
France nobody understands a girl of
her independent character. She is
one of the best hearted persons in
existence, aspires really to do good in
the world, and is of bouuteous, I'M
theatrical nature, hating the arti-
fatalities OF what it is agreed to term
high life. She thinks the Jewish
rabbis are as bad oppressors as the
Catholic priests, inasmuch as they
set their faces against mixed mar
riages. Jewish marriages, be it
known, are the grand source of the
rabbi s income. at least here. A rab-
bis fee for joining the hand of
bride and bridegroom in first class
style is $1,000. His lowest one is
800. Mile. Helen Rothschild is of
opinion that if her ancestors had
transmitted to her beauty, splendid
health and fine brain, they would
be more deserving of her gratitude
than in leaving her fortune which
is computed at $70,0O0,000. All that
her father left her when she was an
infant has increased during her mi
nority to that great sum total. Opu-
lent Baron'ss Solomon Rothschild
was under no temptation to enjoy any
of it, or to take out of the heritage
the money il cost for her daughters
maintenance and education.
The object of the young lady's
passion is Belgian cavalry officer of
old Catholic family, who last winter
led cotillons at her mothers balls,
and is almost as penniless as the first
SAKE Coburg prince who quartered
himself on the English was when he
went there to court the Princess
Charlotte of Wales. Baroness Solo
mon Rothschild is,also kind, good
soul, aud it would grieve her greatly
to stand in the way of her only
daughter happiness. However, she
thought she must resist the young
lady's will, and all the more so as the
whole kith and kin urged her to do
SO. But this Helen OF modern
kind said she was of age and meant
to take her head. She would not
elope, but would set up on her own
account with all her personal attend
ants, horses, dogs and the rest at the
house at Pierrefonds of the doctor
who presided at her birth and
stay there until she had forced
by a legal procedure her mother and
ex-guardian to consent to her mar
riage. This procedure is termed the
serving of actes respectueux, or re-
spectful acts, on the person whose
consent is required. What would be
easier would be to get herself natu-
rallied English and to induce her
Belgian sweetheart to do so likewise.
She could then get married according
to English law, and without fuss and
trouble, as did Lady Rosebery, at a
registrars office. Recent British
legislation would secure to her the
entire management and possession of
her own fortune, and her situation
would be in every way solid and
REGULAR.
In the Rothschild family the births
of girls are very much more fire.
auent than those of boys. Lady
Rosebery was the only daughter of
an English Rothschild. Her two
cousins, who married the Hon. Cyril
Flower and son of Lord Hard
wlcke, were coheiresses of another
member of the London branch. The
Frankfort Rothschild who has just
died had six daughters, one Of whom
is the wife of Lord Rothschild.
Daughters are greatly in excess of
sons in the family of Bacon Gustave
Rothschild, the only male member of
the clan who married out of it until,
a short time ago, Leopold Roths-
child, the tenant of the manor house
of Chiselhurst, where the Empress
Eugene lived, sought wife among
family of Trieste Jews named
Perugia. The women are more in
dependent than the men in this
great banking dynasty, and in mind,
tastes and feelings their superiors.
They are sick Of being cooped up
with near relations, and want to go
out into the wide world which Pagan
isln and Christianity have combined
to form. Some of them, from
race point of view I use the
word in a Darwinian sense), have
made wretched matches, Prince de
Wagram is scamp, and though go
ing on to 90 when Mile. Rothschild
chose to become his wife, had not
sown all his wild oats. But she could
in becoming his wife boast that she
was connected with the royal family
of Bavaria and with the Empress of
Austria, the grandmother of the hus-
band of her choice having been a
daughter Of the Prince Palatine,
DUKE in Bavaria. and aunt of jolly
old Duke Max, the father of Empress
Elizabeth. Her other sister married
the Duke de Gramont, nephew Of
Comte dOrsay, Lady Blessington' 5
son-iu- law, and son of the good for
nothing Foreign Minister of Louis
! Napoleon, who plunged France into